1857.] 



THREE DAYS AT KILLARNEY. 



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I may here mentiou that 

 I have a specimen of Dro- 

 sera anglica, gathered near 

 Urrisbeg, Connemara, in 

 July, 1856, which is very 

 slightly caulescent. The 

 case of a solitary individual, 

 found growing amongst 

 many thousands of the 

 normal form, and slightly 

 varying from that form, is 

 very different from the case 

 where all the individuals 

 in a locality are very con- 

 siderably and apparently 

 permanently removed from 

 the ordinary state. Whe- 

 ther the plant is a distinct 

 -species, or only a variety, 

 must depend on the cha- 

 racters exhibited by the 

 flowers and seed. It is 

 highly probable that plants 

 furnished with these or- 

 gans may be found in the 

 locality named by any one 



who will take the trouble to search for them ; and I trust that 

 some person fully qualified to settle this point may be so fortu- 

 nate as to find flowering and fruited specimens of the Drosera in 

 question, and communicate the result to the public, I think that 

 I can point out very exactly the spot in which my plants were 



of this since I have found a stem leafy, and that the other two species of Drosera, 

 though growing exactly in the same situation, and within a few inches of the longi- 

 foUa, do not assume tliis caulescent form " (Dr. HuU's ' British Flora,' first edition, 

 pp. 67, 68). 



If the form should prove to be one of more frequent occun-ence than I at first 

 supposed, it will hkely reward the search of many collectors ; and I also suggest 

 the propriety of collectors examining the specimens which they may have already 

 m then herbarimn, in case the form may have been passed over inadvertently. It 

 was not untU my specimens were fully dry and ready for labelling that I detected 

 the pecuUarity of their form. 



